An empirical study on entrepreneurial intentions among Japanese university students

Kosei Fukuda

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2014, vol. 21, issue 2, 216-230

Abstract: Previous empirical studies on students' entrepreneurial intentions lack the viewpoint of career choice. This paper adopts a framework through which becoming an entrepreneur is the result of selecting from alternative careers by applying a multinomial logit model to survey data on 187 university students. The estimation results indicate that: 1) both entrepreneurial experience and the existence of an admired entrepreneur positively affect entrepreneurial intention; 2) membership in the faculty of commerce positively affects entrepreneurial intention and negatively affects the intention to become a public employee; 3) co-residence with family is negatively related to entrepreneurial intention.

Keywords: career choice; entrepreneurial intentions; multinomial logit; Japan; entrepreneurship; university students. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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